I saw Vista on a few computers and decided it was not for me. The easy choice was to leave Windows, and I've not regretted it.

Same here. Reinforced by a chronically arthritic WinXP.

I battled with the vagaries of Vista on my wife's computer for two years before I finally succeeded in persuading her to let me install Linux. I don't know whether she likes it any better and there are pros and cons in both from an average user's viewpoint.

However, it makes it a lot easier for me to maintain her computer.

The point made by Newport Boy above is a good one. I now tend to use JiK's method of adding a numeric date to the beginning of filenames and have reorganised several of my folders to in this way. I also use either date or alphabetic sub-folders with very large folders.

My song and tune files are mostly alphabetic and my audio, video and picture files are mostly now in date order.